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Nigerian Spam aleart! - ssor - 05-31-2004 Many have seen thies letters in their Email box. I personaly over the last 4 years have recieved over 50 of them. The info changes but all have the same results that takes money. The most common forms of these fraudulent business proposals fall into seven main categories: * Disbursement of money from wills * Contract fraud (C.O.D. of goods or services) * Purchase of real estate * Conversion of hard currency * Transfer of funds from over invoiced contracts * Sale of crude oil at below market prices The most prevalent and successful cases of Advance Fee Fraud is the fund transfer scam. In this scheme, a company or individual will typically receive an unsolicited letter by mail from a Nigerian claiming to be a senior civil servant. In the letter, the Nigerian will inform the recipient that he is seeking a reputable foreign company or individual into whose account he can deposit funds ranging from $10-$60 million that the Nigerian government overpaid on some procurement contract. Here is a general description to help you spot the scams. Sir/Madam You are receiving this email because our spam detection software has identified you as the potential victim of a Nigerian 419 Advance Fee Fraud. This fraud typically originates with the scam operator soliciting your assistance to move millions of dollars from Africa to a different continent. Sometimes you may be told that this money belongs to you as the next of kin of a deceased person. Quite often this fictitious sum of money will supposedly be deposited with an online bank with your own account. The "bank" will simply be a fraudulent website with completely bogus "accounts" to fool you. You will eventually be asked to pay fees ranging from a few thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars for administration fees, storage fees, transportation costs, clearance documents. In the final stages you will be asked for hundreds of thousands of dollars to either pay for government taxes, or procure insurance documents, or terrorist clearance documents, or chemicals to "clean" the money, or generally some other excuse for you to pay a lot of money. Some times you will be asked to travel to an African country or to Europe to claim the money. Several persons who have traveled have been kidnapped and even killed. It is also possible that the scam artists may send you a counterfeit cashier's cheque for a large amount of money and then ask you to immediately wire that money to a third party. Most banks will not be able to identify the cheque as counterfeit for at least three or four weeks. If you receive such a cheque ensure that you wait for at least four weeks after depositing the cheque before using any money from such a cheque. Be advised that this is an ongoing scam that has been happening for over forty years and to date it has successfully bilked unwary victims of billions of dollars. There are currently thousands of persons, primarily of West African origin, perpetrating this scam. Note that all parties - the person originally soliciting your help, the "lawyers", the "online bank", the "security company" - are part of the scam. There is no money. The only persons who stand to gain in this business are the criminals operating this scam. If it sounds too good to be true then it is. If you have already paid any money to these criminals it is almost certainly lost for good. If you are still in contact with the criminals it is in your best interests to cease all communications and forward all correspondences to the authorities in your country. For detailed information on this scam please refer to the following websites: Univ. of Pennsylvania Alert: http://www.upenn.edu/computing/security/...es/419scam.html The 419 Coalition's homepage: http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ The 419 Fraud homepage: http://www.419fraud.com/ London Metropolitan police page: http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm US Secret Service page: http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/financial_crimes.htm#Nigerian Nigerian Police webpage: http://www.nigeriapolice.org/419.html Freeman Institute: http://www.freemaninstitute.com/419cbn.htm If you reside in the United States and have lost money to the criminals please contact the United States Secret Service financial crimes division by referring to their page at: http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml Sincerely, 419 Alerts [signature] Re: [ssor] Nigerian Spam aleart! - DrownedDesertRat - 06-04-2004 I've received something similar in the e-mail at work as well as in my own personal e-mail account. The ones I've received have to do with a will and somebody who was in Iraq that died. I laugh as I delete it. [signature] Re: [ssor] Nigerian Spam aleart! - tubeN2 - 06-04-2004 I get those all the time. Just like you said, It is too good to be true.[pirate] [signature] Re: [ssor] Nigerian Spam aleart! - patches - 06-12-2004 hey ssor~! how ya doin?? well even here on mine in vermont i,m gittin em there [mad][mad][mad][crazy]i delete em too! later [signature] Re: [ssor] Nigerian Spam aleart! - tubeN2 - 06-14-2004 There is a brand new one in my mailbox from Liberia. Offering the same garbage deal. [signature] Re: [tubeN2] Nigerian Spam aleart! - ssor - 06-15-2004 This scam uses many different locations in the discription of the offer. Rest assured that the majority are actualy from the same area in Nigeria. Not shure but from what has been explained to me, The local athorities might also be currupted with this thing. Their is no way to recover funds lost to thies guys as there is no cooperation with athorities in Nigeria along with no extradition agreement to bring them to trial. [signature] Re: [ssor] Nigerian Spam aleart! - tubeN2 - 06-15-2004 I may be blonde, but I wasn't born yesterday. I am not so gullable to fall for those hideous scams.[pirate] I just feel sorry for the victims that do. [signature] |